{"product_id":"the-new-old-world-isbn-9781844677214","title":"The New Old World","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe New Old World\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia. It opens with a consideration of the origins and outcomes of European integration since the Second World War, and how today’s EU has been theorized across a range of contemporary disciplines. It then moves to more detailed accounts of political and cultural developments in the three principal states of the original Common Market—France, Germany and Italy. A third section explores the interrelated histories of Cyprus and Turkey that pose a leading geopolitical challenge to the Community. The book ends by tracing ideas of European unity from the Enlightenment to the present, and their bearing on the future of the Union. \u003ci\u003eThe New Old World\u003c\/i\u003e offers a critical portrait of a continent now increasingly hailed as a moral and political example to the world at large.“He approaches the EU with the deepest skepticism, and finds much to justify the use of his blade.”—John Lloyd, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Anderson is among the most insightful and policy-relevant analysts of modern Europe.”—Andrew Moravcsik, \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the best political, historical and literary essayists of the age.”—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As insightful, combative and invigorating as its illustrious predecessors.”—Mark Mazower, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a hugely ambitious and panoramic political book, of a sort rarely attempted in our era of quick leader biographies and reheated histories of the Second World War.”—Andy Beckett, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerry Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of, among other books, \u003ci\u003eSpectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Old World\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches history at UCLA and is on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301289873637,"sku":"NP9781844677214","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844677214.jpg?v=1767740677","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-new-old-world-isbn-9781844677214","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}